"Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful."

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Source : Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.44, Emblem Editions

Anne Michaels

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“Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.”
“If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.”
“The theory of government changes with general progress.”
“Sunday is a day of rest.”
“The wise learn many things from their enemies.”

Source : Aristophanes, W. J. Hickie (1873). “The Comedies of Aristophanes”, p.322
“My peer would have to be dark-haired and handsome, a wonderful dancer... and he would never ask permission before he kissed me." -Lillian Bowman”
“We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it's not too cumbersome for people to be able to comply with. And that they don't end up spending more money trying to file their taxes than they do actually paying in.”

Source : "Rep. Kristi Noem: Head of the Class" by Emily Miller, humanevents.com. February 14, 2011.
“When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or hazardous occupations, and in climates pernicious to human life. Sailors and soldiers are prodigals. . . . War and pestilence have always waste and luxury, among the other evils that follow in their train.”

Source : John Rae (1834). “Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy: Exposing the Fallacies of the System of Free Trade, and of Some Other Doctrines Maintained in the "Wealth of Nations."”, p.123

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